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  "name": "AH-64E Apache Guardian",
  "aliases": [],
  "domain": "air",
  "country": "USA",
  "category": "Attack helicopter",
  "status": null,
  "fielded": 2012,
  "operators": [
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    "ARE",
    "EGY",
    "GBR",
    "IDN",
    "IND",
    "ISR",
    "JPN",
    "KOR",
    "KWT",
    "MAR",
    "NLD",
    "QAT",
    "SAU",
    "SGP",
    "TWN"
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      "k": "engine_name",
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      "label": "Thrust / power",
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      "label": "Direct Fire Control",
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      "label": "Laser Designator",
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      "v": "1 x Modernized Day Sensor Assembly (M-DSA) with Laser Spot Tracker and Laser Range Finder / Designator",
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      "label": "Target Acquisition System",
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      "v": "Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS)",
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      "label": "Sensors note",
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      "label": "Add on Armor",
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      "conf": "medium"
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      "name": "1 x McDonnell Douglas Helicopter's M230 30-mm chain gun",
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      "caps": {
        "Type": "Chain Gun",
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        "Rate of fire": "625 +/- 25 rpm"
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      "range_km": 4
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      "name": "Rockwell AGM-114 Hellfire laser-guided anti-tank missiles",
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      "caps": {
        "Type": "Air-to-surface and surface-to-surface missile",
        "Length": "1.6 m"
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      "name": "Hydra 70 2.75-in (70-mm) rocket pods",
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      "caps": {
        "Type": "air-to-ground",
        "Guidance": "Unguided",
        "Speed": "739 m/s"
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      "name": "AH-64A",
      "text": "The AH-64A is the original production attack helicopter. The crew sits in tandem in an armored compartment. It is powered by two GE T700 turboshaft engines.",
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    {
      "name": "AH-64B",
      "text": "In 1991, after Operation Desert Storm, the AH-64B was a proposed upgrade to 254 AH-64As. The upgrade would have included new rotor blades, a Global Positioning System (GPS), improved navigation systems and new radios. U.S.",
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    {
      "name": "AH-64C",
      "text": "Additional funding from Congress in late 1991 resulted in a program to upgrade AH-64As to an AH-64B+ version. More funding changed the plan to upgrade to AH-64C.",
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    },
    {
      "name": "AH-64D",
      "text": "The AH-64D Apache Longbow is equipped with a glass cockpit and advanced sensors, the most noticeable of which being the AN/APG-78 Longbow millimeter-wave fire-control radar (FCR) target acquisition system and the Radar Frequency Interferometer (RFI), housed…",
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    {
      "name": "AH-64E",
      "text": "Formerly known as AH-64D Block III, in 2012, it was re-designated as AH-64E Guardian to represent its increased capabilities. The AH-64E features improved digital connectivity, the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System, more powerful T700-GE-701D…",
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    },
    {
      "name": "AH-64F",
      "text": "In 2014, Boeing conceptualized an Apache upgrade prior to the introduction of the U.S. Army's anticipated attack version of the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) aircraft, forecast to replace the Apache by 2040.",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Compound Apache",
      "text": "In October 2018, Boeing began testing the AH-64E Block 2 Compound, a compound helicopter design which added a larger fixed wing and a pusher propeller to the Apache airframe to provide additional lift and thrust, respectively.",
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    },
    {
      "name": "Sea Apache",
      "text": "During the 1980s naval versions of the AH-64A for the United States Marine Corps and Navy were examined. Multiple concepts were studied with altered landing gear arrangements, improved avionics and weapons.",
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  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "change": "Entry created from the Worldwide Equipment Guide (ODIN), bulk import"
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-10",
      "change": "Added photo (Public domain)"
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    "weg-ah-64e-apache-guardian": {
      "title": "AH-64E Apache Guardian American Attack Helicopter",
      "publisher": "U.S. Army TRADOC G-2 Worldwide Equipment Guide (ODIN)",
      "url": "https://odin.t2com.army.mil/WEG/Asset/AH-64E_Apache_Guardian_American_Attack_Helicopter",
      "published": "2026-03-20",
      "tier": 1,
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